Only someone from Faux news would "pretend" to be homeless, & pass on an ignorant message to viewers [View all]

[Heather MC]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/21/1257379/-Stossel-Pretends-to-be-a-homeless-panhandler-Learns-nothing-Blasts-us-for-enabling-scammers?detail=facebook

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What a turd,

"What did you do with the money you?"
John, "We donated it to a REAL Charity" "It wasn't that much"
Umm If he was really homeless, he would know $90 IS A FREAKIN' gold mine!
Hell I tempted

Stossel Pretends to be a homeless panhandler. Learns nothing. Blasts us for "enabling scammers."
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Hat tip to Scott Keyes of Think Progress who had this to say:

I don’t throw around the term “hero” lightly, but it takes a special kind of person to look at a homeless man on the street — with no home to stay warm in, little access to a shower or clean clothes, and few possessions — and decide that he’s got it too good. But Fox Business host John Stossel bravely took up that mantle Thursday morning during a guest appearance on Fox & Friends, warning viewers about the perniciousness of giving money to the poor.
The things I have seen, that I wish I could share with this man.
I really wish I could sit down with Stossel and take him through some of the slum neighborhoods here in DC. I wish I could show him the things I've seen here. And I've only been here for four weeks. There are plenty of places in New York he could visit if he gave a damn.

I wish I could take him on a tour of the rural slums of Appalachia, to meet entire families living in almost total destitution, families who are proud when a family member manages to get a paying job at McDonalds, because she's the first one to get something quasi-permanent since the factory that employed their town closed down under Reagan.

I wish he could meet the woman I sat with, who local republicans expected to work until she died, who'd been a migrant farmworker her entire life. I wish he could see five generations of her family crammed into one room in a shotgun house. I wish he could see the extended families living in cramped apartments here in DC, or in NYC.

And I wish he could see what it's like, what it's actually like, for someone to lose everything, and have no support, no help, nothing.

I wish he could see how people treat the blue-outfitted Doe Fund workers, who clean up the mess left behind by drunk financial workers in the UES every morning, scrubbing vomit off the street, and collecting shards of broken bottles in front of swanky scotch bars and tapas joints.

But he's a libertarian. And I'm sure he'd respond with wilful, intentional ignorance.

The appalachian family should have followed the jobs, and left their town. Nevermind that the property they own there is literally the only thing they have, and previous generations literally worked themselves to death so that the family could afford to buy that tiny bit of property with its crumbling house.